Més xocant i interessant és... "Propagative work (for example, #SARSCoV2 virus culture, ...or animal studies) should only be conducted following a careful local risk assessment and should be conducted using heightened control measures, which correspond to #BSL2..."
cert q continua parlant-se q manipulació i propagació cal fer-la a #BSL2 o superior (per ex. #BSL3) però ho circumscriu, a... "in the case of #VOC with unknown biological profile.", una aplicació obvia del principi de precaució.
Darrera guia de #bioseguretat en el laboratori en treballs amb #SARSCoV2 segons la @WHO.. El més cridaner? Per l'avaluació de risc basal ha passat a ser #patogen que es pot manipular i propagar en entorns #BSL2. #biosafety
Així, "Non-propagative diagnostic laboratory work (for example, sequencing, nucleic acid amplification...) should be informed by a risk assessment and conducted at a facility using procedures and effective risk control measures corresponding to #BSL2."
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-whe-epp-2024.3
Laboratory biosafety guidance related to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Interim guidance, 11 March 2024

Interim guidance on laboratory biosafety related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus to laboratories and stakeholders involved in COVID-19 laboratory work.

F£%K these a**holes #WHO

Downgrading this does enormous harm

They know EXACTLY what they are doing #BSL2 #BSL3
h/t @mdc_martinus

@BigBadDog
Seriously though.. do these people still believe in Santa Claus too?

I didn’t speak to the anti-vax never Covid myself, but I know who he is & let’s just say he has classic signs of diabetes as does the woman who got all the vaccines

I love my conversations b/c accidental extraction of info by being me😂 Not one to be stopped by thought terminator cliches prattled on about Novavax no side effects for me etc & she says, I never had any side effects.. which means she’s like those rats they took immune system away from who had🚫symptoms

Either she’s Mary Mallon superspreader, which tbh is worse & she SHOULD mask or she’s been asymptomatic b/c she works in a HIGHLY contagious environment

Perfectly pleasant? person but not bright in the least. Good artist though but if I’m being perfectly blunt, quite stupid

People assume I’m highly vulnerable based on my👩🏼‍🚀+😷not understanding technically I’m most likely healthier then them

It’s always interesting those who get stuck sitting across from me for a bunch of subway stops tho.. 2 or more will laugh at my absurd appearance, even someone by themself. But the🚫😷asian female eventually furrows their brows & I can almost mind read their fleeting concern. Yeah, I’m not wearing this thing b/c I want to

And then this bullsh*t over the WHO downgrading SARSCov2 from #BSL3 to #BSL2

I think these a**holes have been stalking & listening to AJ Leonard spaces b/c a couple months ago he mentioned they could downgrade this to #BSL1 & now I’m pretty upset this conversation ever happened b/c these a**holes aren’t themselves very smart & doubt they conjured this idea themselves

For most people, they have no understanding of BSL but it was a tool those of us who are the “last holdouts” were using in explaining seriousness of the situation

But it could backfire if one were to explain how absurd it is to go from BSL3 to BSL2 when fundamentally nothing has changed. But then again people are stupid enough to believe in a span of just 4 years this thing has evolved into a mere cold🙄JFC. Me, who has literally had zero biology education ever, even I can hear the absurdity in this statement

March is the worst month
Looking forward to Persian New Year next week is all I can say…

#BSL2 lab skills clearly came through for me. After my partner got covid last fall, I managed to escape it (somehow!)

We

  • traveled to that event together
  • experienced nearly all the same things (albeit had masks off to eat at different times on the long train)
  • slept next to each other the night before she got a positive test result

But once home we wore FFP3s and FFP2s and isolated quite strictly, and now we’ve got the regular blood test results back from the national study in which we’re enrolled and I still don’t have N-antibodies! so, that’s pretty neat.

Akkoma